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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
Why are you (and by extension, why is the U.S.) so concerned with dominance? Describing these things as "critical" indicates a predisposition to forget about the rest of the world, doesn't it?
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The US has always felt threatened by communism. There is still the Cold War era ideal of a purely democratic world. The US has always feared that if communism spread, the amount of oppressed people in the world would also rise.
The US is a large nation and all large nations tend to focus inward (China, USSR, India) and concern themselves with their own issues. I can't say if dominance predisposes Americans to forget the rest of the world, but the preservation of dominance has a large part of also being able to preserve democracy in other nations.